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Pegasus2 R6 review: Six hard drives, Thunderbolt 2, and a lot of speed

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The Pegasus2 R6 (http://www.promise.com/promotion_page/promotion_page.aspx?region=en-US&amp;rsn=166) from Promise is the first Thunderbolt 2 peripheral to make its way into the Macworld Lab. It’s a six-drive 12TB hardware RAID box and can be purchased from the Apple Store (http://store.apple.com/us/product/HE152VC/A/promise-pegasus2-r6-12tb-6-by-2tb-thunderbolt-2-raid-system) for $2299.</p><p>
The Pegasus2 R6 we received has six 7200-rpm hard drives with 2TB of capacity each, the same capacity as the first Pegasus we tested (http://www.macworld.com/article/1160819/pegasusr6thunderbolt.html). The Pegasus2 is a hardware RAID that comes preconfigured as RAID 5 array, but can easily be changed to to RAID 0, 1, 10, or JBOD using the included software. The Pegasus2 has a black aluminum case to better match the design of the new Mac Pro (http://www.macworld.com/article/2082515/mac-pro-late-2013-review-apples-new-mac-pro-really-is-for-pros.html) and has two Thunderbolt 2 ports to allow for daisy chaining up to six compatible devices. Thunderbolt products with just one port, must sit at the end of a daisy chain, and having two ports gives you more flexibility, and have two Thunderbolt 2 ports means that you can connect more Thunderbolt 2 devices.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2090833/pegasus2-r6-review-six-hard-drives-thunderbolt-2-and-a-lot-of-speed.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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